Editing Dick Spring (section)

==Sporting career==
Spring played [[Gaelic football]] and [[hurling]] for [[Kerry GAA|Kerry]] during the 1970s.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2008/0227/1203619485880.html|title=How rugby put Spring in step|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=27 February 2008|access-date=8 March 2009|archive-date=12 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012154757/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2008/0227/1203619485880.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He played his club football with the [[Kerins O'Rahilly's]] club in [[Tralee]] and hurling with [[Crotta O'Neill's]]; he also played underage hurling with Austin Stacks and won a minor county championship in 1967. His father [[Dan Spring|Dan]] won two [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]]s in [[1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship|1939]] and [[1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship|1940]].

He then won [[rugby union]] caps for [[Munster Rugby|Munster]], and lined out for [[London Irish]] in the UK. He also was capped for [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]] three times during the [[1979 Five Nations Championship]], debuting against {{nrut|France}} on 20 January 1979 at [[Lansdowne Road]], and receiving his last international cap on 17 February 1979 against {{nrut|England}} at [[Lansdowne Road]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/ireland/rugby/player/8212.html|title=Ireland/Players & Officials/Dick Spring|work=ESPN Scrum dot Com|date=28 February 2011|access-date=4 July 2012|archive-date=19 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719202001/http://www.espnscrum.com/ireland/rugby/player/8212.html|url-status=live}}</ref>